When Students Choose Their Own Path, Learning Follows
Ask a typical student “Why should you go to school?” and the reasons might look something like this:
To learn
To get good grades
To make friends
To play sports
To get into college
To get a job
Because I have to
For the more philosophical student, …
Bringing Community Together through Citizen Science
Teton Science Schools has long understood the value, impact and fun that comes along with participating in citizen and community science (CCS) — or in short, public participation in scientific research. We do it with visiting school and teacher groups through programs like Nest Watch and Wyoming Stream Team, …
What to Expect at the Virtual Place-Based Symposium
For the past four years, we here at Teton Science Schools have been bringing our community together for our annual Place-Based Education Symposium. It’s an event that was designed as a way to celebrate the place-based work happening across the organization, …
Take a Virtual Field Trip with Teton Science Schools on this Google Expedition
Since our foundation in 1967, students have been journeying to Teton Science Schools’ campuses — from near and far — to learn science in the field. The experience is hands-on, it’s experiential, …
Learning and Growing in the Garden with Kids
At Teton Science Schools, gardening and growing food has long been a part of our place-based curriculum. Mountain Academy students can often be found tending to the vegetable plots during Farm and Garden program on the Teton Valley Campus . …
Connecting to Community & Place while Social Distancing
Whether you are practicing social distancing at home, caring for a loved one who is ill or trying to make sense of an uncertain and fast-evolving public health crisis, things have been feeling pretty heavy over the last couple of weeks. …
Equipping Teachers, Parents and Students for Distance Learning
As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, schools are closing their doors in an effort to slow the spread and protect students, educators and their families — some for days, weeks or perhaps even longer. …
Students Make Big Impact in Community through Local Wildlife Project
“We want to help animals.”
That was what Place Network teacher, Hilary Hays, heard from her Mountain Academy kindergarten and first grade students (the Moon Stars) at the start of their year-long project. …
Preparing Educators for the Place-Based Education Classroom
Industrialized education is dead. Young people absorbing content absent of context creates factory workers for the Industrial Age, not leaders for the 21st century. In the beginning, Teton Science Schools operated in the informal education sector by creating opportunities for high school students to learn through “doing science” on public lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. …
Diving into Place-Based Education: Design Thinking
The world faces design hurdles every single day. Whether it’s our most prestigious scientists and politicians understanding how our global economies can curb climate change, our local civil engineers figuring out how to design a new development in town or even our own school administrators dealing with challenging pick-up and drop-off processes, …
